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A.V. Club
What’s most amazing about Acid Rap isn’t Chance’s talent, but how eagerly he employs it. There’s hardly a track where he isn’t pushing or testing himself
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The 405
Acid Rap is an unusually "musical" hip-hop record in the classic sense, often with the feel of a full live band backing Chance up
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Prefix
It is Chance’s ability to transition fluidly between self-imaginings that makes him such an impressive and likeable rapper. It’s also part of what will make Acid Rap one of the major hip-hop releases of this year
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Pitchfork
If Lamar’s good kid m.A.A.d city stoked tension through plot cliffhangers, home invasions, and ominous minor chords, Chance’s Acid Rap is a triumph of meditative moments, open-ended quests, and brass flares
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Pretty Much Amazing
Begs to be played while drinking in your favorite park on the most beautiful day this summer. The release timing couldn’t be better
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Spin
An endless burst of wordplay, half-idyllic memories of youth, and sensitive-dude concerns aired out in a voice that invokes the somber squeak of Kendrick Lamar
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Consequence Of Sound
Chance’s voice and the multi-faceted production are all about change, examining any little moment that might provide some fun and relief
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Rolling Stone
On his wildly anticipated, unshakably confident second mixtape, the Chicagoan speaks in his own distinctive and eccentric voice
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Fact
As a portrait of a city, and a person, Acid Rap is about as good – and as honest – as they come
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The Quietus
Paints a splat of vivid colour over the city's newspaper headlines. Even if the brightness is hallucinatory, sometimes it helps to pretend everything's good
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PopMatters
Though it’s not a perfect collection of songs, as a coming-out party Acid Rap is pretty impressive
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